National news archive
On a conference at the national Institute of Justice, OSCE supported the current reform of Moldova's prosecution service. >> read more
Czech parliament has adopted EU laws banning discrimination in education, employment and health care on grounds of race and sexual orientation, overturning an earlier veto by president Václav Klaus. >> read more
LSI is pleased to announce that in June this year, La Strada Macedonia received the 1st prize of the ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration for its child trafficking prevention campaign. >> read more
On 10 April, Bulgarian State Gazette announced a number of amendments to the Criminal Code passed by the Parliament in the field of protection against domestic violence.
>> read moreOn 19 February 2009, the High Court for the first time granted compensation to four Moldovan women trafficked into forced prostitution in the UK with more than £600,000 in damages.
>> read moreIn April 2009, the National Assembly of Serbia ratified the Convention on action against trafficking in human beings, one of the most important international legal instruments in this field.
>> read moreIn Ireland, a woman has been sent to jail after police disputed her claim that she was a victim of trafficking into the sex industry. NGOs have now criticised the high threshhold for protection of victims.
>> read moreIt is expected that the prison sentences for THB will soon increase in the Netherlands from 6 to 8 years. In gravitating circumstances sentences can range from 12 to 18 years. >> read more
On 10 October 2008, La Strada Ukraine held an international workshop on "Standards in social prevention of trafficking in persons in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine". >> read more
An NGO shadow report to the ICCPR Convention criticises the limited protection the Dutch government grants to trafficked persons concerning residency and asylum, amongst others. >> read more
In March, LSI launched the campaign Rights and Roses: Prevent Trafficking - Respect Women’s Rights. La Strada members carried out national activities in 2008, summarised here. >> read more
In 2008, La Strada Ukraine published an updated version of a manual on social and psychological work with children of labour migrants as well as an educational video for the prevention of THB. >> read more
New research on Thai massage parlours in the Netherlands, published in October 2008 by the Rode Draad, a sex workers’ rights organisation, finds slavery-like working conditions.
>> read moreOn 11 July 2008, a verdict was reached in the biggest trafficking case the Netherlands has seen so far, resulting in prison sentences and compensation orders of up to 50.000 EUR.
>> read moreIn 2007, 716 trafficking cases were registered by CoMensHa (La Strada Netherlands), which is a 23,7% increase as compared to the 579 cases registered in 2006. >> read more
Macedonian Inspectors and Border Police officers will be taught by the OSCE better methods and techniques to deal with the identification of victims and to provide psycholgical assistance. >> read more
On 27 May 2008, the Dutch national Rapporteur published her sixth report on human trafficking in the Netherlands, containing updated statistics on the year 2006.
>> read moreLa Strada Netherlands, BLinN and LSI are critical about the Amsterdam mayor's plans to restrict prostitution with the argument this will prevent or counter trafficking. >> read more
On 13 December, STV celebrated its 20th anniversary with a name change, to the Coordination Point Human Trafficking (COMENSHA). A conference brought together leading Dutch anti-trafficking actors. >> read more
The German committee of UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) has awarded La Strada Belarus for the best non-EU anti-trafficking project in 2007. >> read more
Save the Children Norway has researched child trafficking in South East Europe, with special focus on BiH. The report bemoans the lack of data on child trafficking and various policy failures.
>> read moreRegular news update from La Strada Ukraine about its activities as well as general news about trafficking, women’s rights and governmental policies in the Ukraine.
>> read moreMore Ukrainians have been trafficked abroad and forced into indentured labour or prostitution than any other Eastern European citizens since the Soviet collapse, according to an IOM survey. >> read more
The CEDAW Committee is concerned about the exclusion from protection under the B-9 regulation of victims who do not cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of traffickers. >> read more
In the framework of the social assistance campaign, Open Gate La Strada Macedonia conducted a two-day seminar for police officers and inspectors dealing with cases of trafficking. >> read more
Early November 2006, La Strada Bosnia Herzegovina organised a regional conference on cooperation of GOs and NGOs in the field of anti-trafficking. >> read more
In 2006, La Strada Czech Republic introduced an outreach programme targeting persons exploited or vulnerable to exploitation in industries outside the sex industry. >> read more
Since October 2006, trafficked persons have more rights to stay in the Netherlands. >> read more
